Amelia won the chance to drive around a Formula 1 track with Lewis Hamilton

Keeping Twitter and Facebook open all day in case new opportunities spring up, the full-time mum, whose incredible prizes have included games consoles, holidays, £1,000 cash and meetings with celebrities, said: “I stopped counting how much the prizes I’d won were worth after £40,000.”

She added: “I’ll have my computer open all day, putting in an hour here and there when I can."

She used to suffer from crippling depression and anxiety but said comping had helped her.

“I don’t go out much as I suffer badly with depression and anxiety, but comping has given me a focus and distraction from that,” she explained.

Amelia, who has been engaged to partner Levi, 29 – dad to her three youngest children Ledainaine, eight, Noah, six and Aela, three – for four years, began entering magazine competitions as a child.

Never having any luck, she gradually stopped, believing they were impossible to win – until she fell pregnant with Ledainaine, when she spotted a competition on Facebook, run by cosmetics company Lush.

She said: “I decided to enter and won a gift set right away. It made me realise that comping can pay off – so I started doing it every single day from there and have barely stopped since.”

Over the years, Amelia, who has another son, Sebastian, 13, from a previous relationship, has scored some enviable freebies, like a 55in television, an Xbox, a PS4, designer bags, an iPad and a meal cooked by famed chef Alexis Gauthier.

Amelia and Levi with the cast of Emmerdale, who they met as part of a prize

Now, though, with her thoughts turning to wedding planning, her dream is to win a bridal gown.

But she is in no hurry as, while she has been engaged for a few years – after Levi proposed out of the blue on Valentine’s Day, hiding a ring around the top of a bottle of Amelia’s favourite perfume – they want to wait until Aela is a little older, so she can remember the day.

“We’d love her to be a real part of it, but she’s too young at the moment,” said Amelia. “My dream is to win a beautiful wedding dress – something really princessy and glittery. I’d love to win the whole wedding if I could.